U.S.-China Strategic Distrust

[Vladimir]

We have a new foreign minister who said this:

While Mr Carr supported the decision to put a rotating deployment of US marines in the Northern Territory, he advised the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, to resist any invitation from the US President to join America in economic rivalry against China.

"America is a natural ally, but it has a political system loaded with pathologies," Mr Carr wrote. "Tell the President politely we are not signing up to a mindless anti-China campaign. The alliance does not require it."

Yesterday Mr Carr and Dr Campbell spoke about a perception of a rising hostility between the US and China.

Dr Campbell said: "I made clear that the US has to be more effective in conveying our desire for a nuanced and sophisticated relationship with China, and to engage the Australian public in this matter."

For his part, Mr Carr said: "I mentioned to him that continuity was the key feature of our foreign policy.

Now whether or not he lives up to this is another question, but there is hope.

Your new foreign minister sounds like, as Clarkson would put it, a right . The right honorable, nuanced, and sophisticated minister should brush up on his diplomatic skills.

What's happening over there? First you get that of a prime minister now this. I really love Ozzies but something's changed. Is it teh eval Muslims?